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The 2024 Summer Olympic Games begin Friday, July 26. To celebrate this international event, Littler offices around the globe will share key changes in labor and employment laws that have transpired since the last time their...more
AT A GLANCE - Restrictive covenants are aimed at protecting the company’s economic interests for a short period of time after the termination of the employment relationship....more
In a recent judgment, France’s Court of Cassation approved the dismissal of a senior executive who had maintained a hidden romantic relationship for more than four years with another employee....more
Cass. soc., 31 janvier 2024, n°22-18.792 La lettre de licenciement n’a pas à préciser la date des faits invoqués. Un salarié licencié pour faute grave conteste la rupture de son contrat de travail, en se fondant notamment...more
Cass. soc., 31 January 2024, n°22-18.792 - A dismissal letter does not have to specify the date of the alleged acts. An employee dismissed for gross misconduct contested the termination of his employment contract, citing...more
“The heaviest consequences in the history of the Fifth Republic”—this is how French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire, described the early elections planned after French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the...more
France is proud to call itself the land of human rights, and Paris the city of love. This pride is not unfounded given how strictly an employer’s actions are regulated when it comes to office romance. As inappropriate as...more
In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more
Depuis le 1er novembre 2023, les employeurs sont tenus de porter à la connaissance de leurs salariés certaines informations sur la relation de travail. L'identité des parties à la relation de travail...more
In a series of decisions given on 13 September 2023, the French Supreme Court has overruled its previous case law regarding the paid leave entitlements of employees who are absent from work as a result of sickness, an...more
French authorities have fined an air freight company for a string of employee data violations, and for its failure to fully cooperate with their investigation....more
France’s highest court has intervened in a case involving an employee dismissed based on the geolocation information of his work vehicle. ...more
The French Civil High Court recently issued five noteworthy decisions on employees’ entitlement to accrue paid leave. The French Labor Code requires that employees perform work to accrue paid leave....more
When considering M&A transactions or group restructuring in France, companies should take into account the high level of protection that French law affords to employees....more
New York, Minnesota and NLRB Act To Limit Noncompetes - New York Legislature Passes Bill To Ban Post-Employment Noncompetes - On June 20, 2023, the New York state Legislature passed a bill that bans post-employment...more
On March 9, 2023, France adopted a much-anticipated statute transposing into French law the EU Directive on Transparent and Predictable Working Conditions (2019/1152) (I.), and the EU Directive on Work-life Balance for...more
On 10 February 2023, the national social partners concluded an interprofessional collective bargaining agreement ("ANI") on value-sharing, which has since been signed by the majority of the representative unions....more
The final World Cup game is set for this Sunday, December 18. Over the past month we have been staging our own matchups, comparing labor and employment laws of participating countries....more
The French Supreme Civil Court (Cour de cassation) recently provided further details on the conditions for admissibility of an internal investigation in the context of an employment dispute....more
Law no. 2022-1158 of August 16, 2022 and the Amending Finance Law for 2022 provide for various measures directly involving the employer, with the objective of limiting the impact of inflation on household budgets....more
Reminder: Employers are obligated to reimburse employee travel costs regardless of the distance between the employee’s residence and the workplace - According to the French National Association of Human Resources (HR)...more
The French Supreme Court confirmed the application of the scale provided by the French labor code for claims of unfair dismissal (called the Macron Scale) in two decisions dated 11 May 2022,2 thereby providing some security...more
Key Figure as at 1 January 2022: €1,603.12 gross: The amount of the gross monthly minimum wage from 1 January 2022 (Decree no.°2021-1741 of 22 December 2021). The Key News to Take Note of for 2022: Remote Working and Update...more
Counsel from jurisdictions where payments to employee-inventors only arise from contracts or employee incentive programs are sometimes surprised when they first become involved with jurisdictions that have statutory payment...more
As jurisdictions across the world grapple with the effects of the more infectious delta variant, many governments either have taken or are considering more restrictive measures to reduce infection rates and community spread...more